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| Note title | 'Spiritum' V.S. 'Carnem' |
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| Page(s) link(s) | Page:FC 1042.djvu/73 |
This is interesting since these words are generally regarded as opposites in this text. The writer wouldn't have interchanged the ideas of the Spirit and the Flesh. From the previous page, the progression is an neither/nor comparison. It is plausible that the writer could have meant neither the soul itself nor the spirit OR neither the soul itself nor the flesh can enter into the most pure state without Divine aid. The end of this paragraph is 'spiritum, et carnem' so it is possible that these words both appeared in the original, and one was lost in each copy: 'ut nec [animam] ipsam, nec spiritum, nec carnem...'
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